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The best-laid plans…

[ August 19, 2025   //   ]

Staffordshire-based specialist shipping company Robert Wynn and Sons recently transported a rotor, and its replacement, between France and the Netherlands for the Paluel Nuclear Power Station, on behalf of forwarders, Ziegler Group.

The heavy lift ro/ro barge Terra Marique loaded the 236-tonne piece – on a 72-tonne trailer — at Fécamp for onward transport to Rotterdam.

Once alongside in Rotterdam, the rotor was lifted off using a shoreside crane and  transferred direct to river barge ‘Meander’ for onward delivery.

A second river barge ‘Expecto’, carrying the replacement 220-tonne rotor then  arrived and was offloaded by crane onto the quay, before being lifted onto the Terra Marique for the return voyage to Fécamp.

But on arrival in Fécamp, a temporary breakdown of the port’s swing bridge prevented the planned transit. To keep the project on schedule, the Terra Marique undertook a night-time manoeuvre, through the Bassin de Mi-Marée with centimetres of clearance before performing the offload the following morning.

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